Example sentences of "[det] men [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the OK Corral — as she preferred to call what some of its visitors termed her quim ( the phrase struck her as useful after she 'd seen the Western ) — some men proved themselves and others came to grief , and both kinds had male competitors on their mind and wanted to outgun them . |
| 2 | Such men found themselves , however , fighting what became all too clearly a rearguard action . |
| 3 | This is how these men make themselves into all those freak things where muscles bulge all over the place , they look as if they 're about to , I 'm not quite sure , they always remind of erm those balloons , you know , that pop off beach balls , they look a bit like that . |
| 4 | These men rate themselves fitter than those who came to sex late and they 're less likely to consider themselves overweight . |
| 5 | These men reconcile themselves to circumstance , make their own compromises with destiny until happier times . |
| 6 | Pursued by the press , both men hid themselves as well as they could . |
| 7 | The British ambassador , who was present taking notes , was dismayed by the failure of both men to address themselves frankly and in detail to most of the key issues . |